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Child Health Futures - Children and Young People Engagement

We transform the child health agenda by actively listening to the voices of children, young people and their families. Can you support us?

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

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Invited Review Service - about

Invited reviews provide healthcare organisations with an opportunity to adopt a proactive approach in seeking assurances on care provided, address areas of concern and identify scope for quality improvement from a team of independent, expert peer reviewers. They support, but do not replace the p...

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Long term, sustainable solution needed on pensions tax, says RCPCH

20 November 2019

Ministers and NHS leaders have signed off on an interim plan to address the pensions tax issue affecting doctors who take on extra hours.

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Rights Matter - what the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child means to us

Written in 1989, the UNCRC is a set of rules, or 'articles', defining how each child and young person can be kept safe from harm, have chances to develop, become an individual and thrive. It helps us keep children and young people at the heart of all we do, through our RCPCH &Us network. We exp...

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Children and young people's voice

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Patient involvement

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Progress curriculum - one year on: how we're responding to your feedback

19 November 2019

A year after we launched our new training curriculum, in August 2018, we asked trainees and supervisors about their experiences of it. The responses were largely positive, but identified some key improvements that we're now working on - such as updates to ePortfolio, providing more support around do...

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Diploma in Child Health (DCH) - about

The DCH recognises competence in the care of children in specialties allied to paediatrics. Clinicians, including GPs and paediatricians, use DCH to upskill and gain an internationally recognised postgraduate medical diploma. Each year over 300 candidates apply to sit DCH Clinical. Since we began...

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RCPCH responds to GMC report on wellbeing for doctors

15 November 2019

Today the General Medical Council (GMC) published ‘Caring for doctors, caring for patients’, which sets out an ambitious and welcome vision for a health service that supports doctors’ wellbeing and patient safety.

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RCPCH responds to A&E waiting times

14 November 2019

We respond to the publication of A&E waiting times by the NHS. Less than three-quarters of patients attending A&E departments in England during October were seen within the four hour target period.

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BPSU study - Button battery ingestion, inhalation or insertion

BPSU surveillance of the unintentional ingestion, inhalation or insertion of button batteries in children requiring removal or attempted removal commenced in February 2021. This study will help inform services for the prevention and treatment of children who have accidentally swallowed or choked on ...

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Community child health

Ear nose and throat

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General paediatrics

Intensive care medicine

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Our manifesto for the next UK government (2019) - view from the President

13 November 2019

With the UK general election on the horizon, we have an opportunity to make our case, explains Russell, for urgent action on the challenges facing both our workforce and the children and young people we support.